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NEW YORK (AP) — Four assistant basketball coaches from Arizona, Auburn, the University of Southern California and Oklahoma State were among those arrested on federal corruption charges Tuesday after they were caught taking thousands of dollars in bribes to steer NBA-destined college stars toward certain sports agents and financial advisers, authorities said. The coaches were […]

One thing about actor/activist Jesse Williams, he knows how to get to the essence of the matter. And that would apply to President Trump‘s comments regarding NFL players who choose to kneel in protest during the singing of the national anthem. Wiliams took it a step further and questioned the necessity for pageantry in sports […]

  Outside his home on Monday, September 25, 2017, a 32-year-old Detroit flower shop owner was a shot and killed. Deantai Box went outside of his home, according to family members to get a wheelchair for a friend with cancer. As soon as he stepped out of the house shots were fired striking and killing […]

It’s hard to be surprised by Donald Trump. On any given day he tinkers around on Twitter with the nuclear annihilation of North Korea, then mocks the way people look, then retweets Neo-Nazi memes of himself assaulting and injuring Hillary Clinton. That’s an average day. None of it is normal or acceptable, but he appears […]

Hurricane Harvey may have gone but the effects of it are still here. One Missouri man who went down to Houston to help in the rebuilding process has suffered from that. While cleaning up he got infected with a flesh-eating bacteria. The water in Houston is said to have fecal matter and bacteria that is […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. ramped up its response Monday to the humanitarian crisis in Puerto Rico, even as President Donald Trump brought up the island’s struggles before Hurricane Maria struck — including “billions of dollars” in debt to “Wall Street and the banks which, sadly, must be dealt with.” The Trump administration has tried […]

With the latest Republican health care overhaul teetering near collapse, one group, in particular, is watching with heightened anxiety. The debate in Congress is personal for many of those who gained coverage through Medicaid in the 31 states that expanded the program under former President Barack Obama’s Affordable Care Act. Alan Purser, who lives in […]

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A century before the fight to end Jim Crow segregation laws, Octavius Valentine Catto was leading a civil rights movement in Philadelphia. The 19th-century educator and activist fought for a better education for black students, led efforts to desegregate the city’s streetcars and pushed for equal voting rights — all before he […]

“No you definitely don’t need to pretend to be a slave but it was another hands on experiment used to simulate slavery. Definitely not an effective way and there’s better alternatives than that.” – Eighth-grade student Kaleem Syed. Students at Whitney High School were enslaved for a day. Administrators at the California high school made […]

A. Leon Higginbotham enjoyed a long career as a federal judge, achieving a number of firsts over the course of his career. On this day in 1962, Higginbotham was named the first Black member of the Federal Trade Commission by President John F. Kennedy. Aloyisus Leon Higginbotham Jr. was born February 25, 1928 in Trenton, […]

A Jackson family insider has spilled the tea about what really went on inside Janet Jackson’s troubled marriage to Wissam Al Mana. The two met “at Dubai’s Armani Hotel opening in 2010,” and “they couldn’t be more different,” The  New York Post was told.“He was, the family source said, reserved and devoted to Islam. Al Mana, who had […]